3 Words From One Sentence on: Page 50
Hexed by Kevin Hearne
Book 2 Iron Druid Chronicle
Bacchants carry around thyrsi which are staves wrapped in ivy leaves… (page 50)
Bacchants:
noun 1. a priest, priestess, or votary of Bacchus; bacchanal. 2. a drunken reveler.
adjective 3. inclined to revelry.
thyrsi – plural for thrysus:
1. Botany . a thyrse.
2. Greek Antiquity . a staff tipped with a pine cone and sometimes twined with ivy and vine branches,
borne by Dionysus and his votaries.
Stave:
noun:
1. one of the thin, narrow, shaped pieces of wood that form the sides of a cask, tub, or similar vessel.
2. a stick, rod, pole, or the like.
3. a rung of a ladder, chair, etc.
4. Prosody .
a. a verse or stanza of a poem or song.
b. the alliterating sound in a line of verse, as the w- sound in wind in the willows.
Image is a segment of painting by Giordano, Baccus mit seinem Gefolge der Faunen und Satyren
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luca_Giordano_001.jpg
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